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A (rather long) time ago, I wrote a blog post showing a demo of an APEX application running native on an iPhone. Now, finally, the moment is there to explain how I did it ;-)
The key part of this demo, is the use of PhoneGap. PhoneGap "wraps" any HTML5 code, thereby giving you access to the native API's of your device. This solution is also used by the upcoming ADF Mobile solution, but can already be used now for any HTML5 web application..including your APEX application.
Start with downloading the PhoneGap sources from their site and install it in your development environment (I used Apple's Xcode) - see the documentation on the PhoneGap site on the how-to.
Within Xcode, you'll get an index.html, which is the starting point of your application. In this, simplified, example, my index.html only contains the following code:

Looking back at this weeks UKOUG Conference, a few things strike my mind. At first, there was no snow this time! A lot of wind to make my flight back quite wobbly, but no snow - like last year - that would make travelling very hard (up to almost impossible).
Second, there were - again - lots of good sessions to choose from. Several time slots had two or even three sessions I would like to attend. And another pro - as strange as it may sound from an APEX geek - there are not that many APEX sessions. That gives me the chance - or the obligation - to look into other corners of the Oracle ecosystem. So I actually did learn something!
And I saw some "ok" sessions, some good ones and a few excellent ones - like Doug's SPM, Connor's Partitioning and Slavik's SQL Injection. But... there was only one really impressive one: Cary's keynote. In a very emotional and personal way, he took the audience by the hand - telling some touching real life stories about his private…